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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-01
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est-CHpred from the Exchanges.
A Yale diploma 122 years old was re-
Gently picked up at an auction sale in
New York. 1t belonged to the Rev.
Elam 0. Potter, who was graduated in
1866, under President Clapp.
4 mushroom plantation has been es-
tablisned in a disused railway tunnel at
Edinburgh. The mushroom beds occupy
about 800 yards of the tunnel, whose
totsi length is about three-quarters of q
mile.
Near the headwaters of the White river
in Alaska is very large and active vol
cano which discharges almost continu-
ously great streams of fire, smoke and
lava. 1t is about 800 miles inland.
''Pa," said little Johnny, ''teacher is
thinking about promoting me-" ''How
do you know?'- From what she said
today ''And what was that?' ''She
said that if kept on I'd belong to the
criminal class"
A kitten of Portland, Ore, was seen to
charm a rattlesnake. The snake was
coiled and with its head followed every
motion of the kitten. The kitten seemed
to realize the Importance of the situation
and never allowed her attention to wan
der from the snake. The snake was
killed.
There is an unaccountable and remark
able mortality among the sardines of San
Luis Obispo bay. They are dying by the
thousands. and the shores of the bay are
covered with these dead fish to the depth
- ~. Il
unbearable.
The most expensive policeman's star in
the United States is said to be the one
owned by Marshal John Jolly, of Butte
City, Mon. 1t is of solid gold; has five
points; each point has diamond: and in
the center is Il monogram of diamonds.
The description indicates that it is worth
more than the $500 at which it is said to
be valued.
Large quantities of gunpowder are at
present being sunk at the mouth of the
Thames by government steamer. This
grlnpowder has been sccumulating for
some years in the magazines at Purheet,
having been returned from stores as de-
Perforated or unreliable. The govern
ment has attempted to find a market for
this condemned powder, but no manu-
facturers were willing to undertake the
risk of the process OF extracting the salt
peter.
Several years ago watermelons were
almost unknown in California. An old
Missourian, who owned forty acres near
Lodi, and who had raised the fruit in old
Missouri, planted his whole lot to melons
His neighbors laughed at the idea of
melons growing without rain, and he
was called the boss crank Of the country.
But the vines thrived and bore melons,
10000 of them-and he cleared $50, 600
from his forty acres; and now Lodi is the
great melon district of the Pacific slope.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-01

Berlin papers report from Fredensbcrg
that as the car was recently about enter
ing his carriage he was approached by a
beggar woman, who held little child in
her arms and inplored his assistance.
The czar roughly called to her in Danish
to withdraw, and quickly jumped into
the carriage. He then beckoned to one
Of the officers of his retinue and handed
him several gold pieces, which he deliv-
cred to the woman with the remark:
His majesty has just come from his
children, who are i'll with the measles,
and did not wish to expose your child to
the contagiQn. He sends you this money
and advises you to leave this spot at
once. The very air around the castle is
dangerous to children. Chicago Times.
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That happiness is not perfection unless
it is shared.
That great possessions may bring great
nlisfOrtunes
That foolish friend does more harm
than q wise enemy.
That the hardest thing to empty out of
the heart is cOnceit,
That it Is not necessary to be mean be-
cause one is a man of means.
That good temper, like sunny day,
sheds a brightness over everything.
That one OF the causes that leads US to
misfortune is that we live according to
the example of others. House
keeping.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-01

The Imperial Academy of Science has
recently completed tho publication Of
translation Of the New Testament into
the language of the Calmucks, Tais is
the first attempt to made known TO the
Calmucls the text of the Christian gos-
pels The initiative is due to the British
Bible society, by which the work of
translation was confided 10 Professor
Pozneieff, Of the chair of Mongol and
Calmuck literature in the University of
st. Petersburg.
Two hundred copies have been sent to
Astrachan and sold to the converted Cal
mucks of that province. The rest have
been sent for distribution in Asia By Eu-
ropean missionaries. Times.
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A Norwich. Conn, man, who had
stocked his pond with a rare and hand
some breed of ducks, found that they
were slowly disappearing, but where they
went he could rot determine. One day
. visitor, sitting ora the piazza, said:
"You,ve got queer ducks. I've seen two
of them dive, but they haven't come up
yet. This was a suggestion to be acted
upon. The owner drew off the water
from tie pond, ard found seventeen
swapping turtles. He killed them, and
now the ducks DO not disappear, or at
least when they dive they come up again.
New York Sun.
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Willows from NapOleon's Grave.

AllNsion was made not long ago in
this paper to weeping willow which
stood until recently in front Of the old
tavern Qast kept by Samuel Shipman) in
Rocky Hill, Conn, the grandfather of
which was slip from over the grave Of
Napoleon, at St. Helena, and this brought
to mind the large willow which stood in
front of the tenant house of N. F. Miller,
near the depot in Bloomfield, and because
OF its great size and height began to be
dangerous and was cut down about two
years ago, the stump measuring four
feet in diameter and about thirteen feet
in circumference. This tree was grown
from slip taken from over the grave of
Napoleon, at st. Helena, in the fall OF
1913, by Col. Charles Green, and by him
given to A. II. Nearing, at that time
owner of the place, and from whose
daughter the above information was OBJ
tained.-Hartford Courant.
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Among the features at Parlor Rock
this winter will be two huge toboggan
slides. Besides the exhilarating exercise
Of sliding down hill, tobogganers can ex-
perience the sensation of sliding up again.
A hydraulic belt, or chain, running con-
tinually, win be used to attach to the as
cendIng toboggans and slowly draw
them and their occupants up to the top
of the slides. The water power Of the
lake VIII be used TO run these elevators,
for electric lightning Haven Reg
iSter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-01

Mayfower was a common name for a
ship in early days, ana the one examined
for the East India company in 1000, and
the other possessed by the company in
1859, which is believed to have >stibse-
quently foundered in the Bay Of Bengal,
must both have been larger ships than the
little craft Of the Pilgrim Fathers. The
May flower Of 1000 must have, moreover,
ceased to exist by 1920, and that OF 1920,
long before 1869, Only ships built Of
Indian teak could have kept the sea from
1000 to 1869 like those used by Phoeni-
clans at Tylos, which Theophrastus tells
us had continued sailing for more than
eco yaars.-The Athen;pum.
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A man who lives hut few miles out
of Albany protects his grapevines from
fruit thieves in a novel manner. The
supportsare Of wood, but tie cross pieces
are of wire insulated from the ground,
and connected with an induction coil
capable Of delivering heavy spark
through an inch of air. The other polo
Of the coil is connected 10 the ground.
Six good sized bichromate OF potash cells
furnish electro motive force for the coil
Short wires hanging among the vines are
secured to the large wires, and when any
one monkeys with the grapevine while
the battery is connected the neighborhood
is apt to hear from him. Il works every
time, and no one comes for q second dose.
Albany Argus.
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Strauss had a daughter, whom he had,
strangely, sent to pietistic school, while
he was separated from her mother. She
was educated pious girl, and subse-
quently married physician. She was
called home when her father was about
TO die, and was deeply affected. When
he saw her weeping, he took her hand in
his and said: ''NJy daughter, your father
has finished his course. You know his
principles and views. He cannot COM
fort YOU with the assurance of seeing
YOU again. What your father has done
will live forever, but his personality will
forever cease to BE. IIo must bow to the
nnchanSeable law Of the universe, and to
that law he reverondy says: Thy will be
done. The PrinceJou Review.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-01

Young married farmers have been dy-
ing Off with dreadful suddenness in vii
lagos of Syrmia in Eastern Croatia.
These young farmers We're all brand new
husbands, and at last their deaths, all
coming so soon after their marriage, eX-
cited suspicion and the matter was inyes-
tigated. II was found that an old woman
had conceived the idea of getting pretty
young girls TO marry farmers and poison
them and divide the spoils. The old
woman is now in Jail, and so far seven
young widows to whom she had fur
nished poison with which to kill their
.husbanQs.- Ifortign Letter.
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One of the latest freaks of military SCI
ence is the training Of watch dogs for
sentry duty. The French war minister
has given orders that dogs shall be tried
in connection with advance post duty and
taught to bark at the approach OF an
enemy or stranger. Dogs are also to be
used as scouts, and if they prove useful
they are to be attached to all the line reg
iments ahd stationed regularly with the
double scntries. Letting loose the dogs
of war" thus promises to have a literal
as well as a metaphorical meaning. New
York Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-01

IN a notice just issued the postoffice
recommends the Gisuse of sealing wax on
ordinary letters for countries over the
sea. It often happens that the wax is
melted by the heat under the tropics or
by the fumigations to which the mail
bags are subjected. In La Plata, for in
stance, the letters are found to stick to-
gether so that they cannot be separated
without injury 10 the address, and are in
this way often lost. Ordinary letters are
quite sufficiently sealed with gum or
wax seals are required, are carefully
handled on the way.-Paris Cor. London
News
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-01

In the Leipsic Stadt theatre there is an
enormous cistern that oyerhangs the
stage, from which an alarming quantity
of water can be flooded down on the
boards at the shortest warning. The
knowledge of this provision has hitherto
been a great source of comfort to The
actors. They were not, however, pre-
pared for an impromptu that occurred
several weeks ago. Without q moment >
warning, and in the presence of stalls,
pit and curtain, nearly the whole COM
pany was soundly drenched. They had
to make a very hasty retreat from the
stage, to drop the curtain and to get
their clothes dried before they could
again ''go on The Audience seemed
immensely amused, and no ''demoraliz-
ing panic" has to be recorded.-Chicago
Herald
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An Early Steel Pen.

Roger North, writing to the Hon. Mrs.
Foley from London, March 8, 1700-1,
says: ''You viii hardly tell by what you
see that write with a steel pen. 1t is a
device come out of France, of which the
original was very good and wrote very
well, but this is but copy i'll made.
When they get the knack of making
them exactly l do not doubt but the
government of the goose quill is near an
end, for none that can have these will
use Others. = Autobiography of the
Hon. Roger North.
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A company of amateurs in Paris are
arranging to produce series of plays by
well known authors, which have failed
of acceptance by the managers of the
regular theatres. Zola. Henry Greville,
and others have promised to contribute
such works, and unacted plays by Hugo
and Jules Wales are to be included in
the repertory. A hundred men have
contributed 100 francs apiece to back
fha I1ndertak king L Chicapo Timal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-01

Little Margery, playing with her kitten,
got a rather severe scratch from the ami
NAL. Her lip trembled for an instant,
and then she assumed the commanding
attitude and expression that her mother
had assumed under somewhat similar cir
cumstanees toward her, and, extending
her hand, said sternly:
"Iitty, dive me dat pinr'--Boston
TranscriDt
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WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed Ernest B. Grant as Shipping
Commissioner for the port of Boston.
Acting Indian Commissioner Upshaw
awarded Thursday the following contracts
for Indian supplies: To H. c. Stevens,
of Kansas City, Mo-, for $4,000 pounds
of beef cattle for the Ponca Agency at
$2.54 per hundred; to John S. Sisson, OF
Cham berlain, D. T., for 10000 pounds of
-four for the Yonkton Agency at $3.50
per hundred, and for 100000 pounds of
flour for the Chey enne River Agency at
$1.85 per hundred; to ASH Reyes, of
Yankton, D. T., for 10000 pounds of
flour for the Cheyenne River Agency at
S2.14 per hundred. All bids for supply
ing fifty mares and fifty horses for the
Otoe Agency were rejected
Western cyclone., 1887-10-14
POLITICAL

William Walter Phelps, of New jersey,
Is out in an interview in which he de-
clares himself candidate for the New
Jersey SenatOrship, to succeed Senator
Mcpherson, whose term expires in 1889.
Mr.. Phelps says: 81 know no reason why
| should not aspire in that direction.
have the time and inclination to make
the canvass, and 1t is pretty generally
conce led that l am entitled to the Re
publican nomination. At any rate, | am
in the field, and am doing all | can to ar
range a Republican Legislature this year.
The outlook is certainly favOra bic for the
Republicans. The Democrats seem to be
pretty we'll demOralized and disorganized.
They are a minus big leader, now that
Mcpherson is out of the way. The out
look to me is very promising
The Democratic convention of Iowa,
met at Council Bluffs, Thursday, to nOmi-
nate a State and county ticket The con-
vention was quiet and harmonious, the
main issue of the day being on Senator
and representatives. Their nomination
was mainly to strengthen the ticket for
local option and high licenses, as against
the Republican and Prohibition. Mayor
Greenewey. of Council Bluffs, was nOmi-
mated for Representative in the upper
House; r. S. Hart, AvOca, first Representa-
tive in the lower House, and A. W. Wyman
of Key Creek Township, was nominated
for second Representative in the lower
house on the fourth ballot.
The State Democratic club, of Cali
fornia, had adopted the following: Re
solved, That it is the sense of this clul
that the Democratic party of the Stat
should take necessary steps TO secure
meeting of the next National COnven tioI
in San Francisco, AMI that the genera
/ committee OF the club be instructed Il
/ confer with the Democratic State Cen
I trail Committee and Hon. NJ 1. Turpey
/ State Mem Der of the Democratic Nationa
Committee. TO carry out the purpose o
this resolution. Democratic paper
throughout the State are generally IN ite
in favoring the proposition 10 hold tn
next National Convention in san Fran
/ cisco.
Western cyclone., 1887-10-14
CASUALTIES

Michael DOnnelly, resident OF Duou-
que, Ia, for over thirty years, an express
man by occupation, met with fatal &C
cident. While driving his team Thursday
the horses started to run, whereupon ne
Jumped and struck against curbstone
rebounded back, fell under the wagon
and was run over. He lived only few
hours.
Thursday night John Hester, negro
went 'poss UNI hunting at the same time
his wife went to preaching. They locked
up the house, leaving two children. aged
and 8, prisoners within. When they re-
Turned they found the house burned down
and the charred remains OF the Children
Ed. Ream, p years of age, was killed.
Thursday, by venturing into an air shaft
of a coal mine in Knoxville, Iowa too soon
after an explosion of a dynamite car
fridge. Another young man Narrowly es-
capped death from the same cause by at
tempting to rescue Ream.
The inquest on the remains of the I'M
known man found in the ruins Of Eaton 5
furniture SneC, dIler VIC AIo az AAu00OA'
Mich, Wednesday, develops the fact that
il was a case OF murder and incendlarlsm.
The skull had been crushed, and the iron
bar by which it was done was taken from
another part of the factory. His pockets
had also been rifled. He had given the
name of Hall.
The schooner Jesse Scarth was wrecked
Tuesday night eight miles north of Man
istee. The Captain and crew were saved
Dick Ellis, n brakeman, whose parents
reside at Franklin Grove, Ill, was run
over and killed Wednesday at Auburn
Neb.
BY the explosion of boiler Wednesday
in David Young's saw mill, three mile:
from Amanda, O., George Lape, Perry
Lane. Simon Young, and Amos Young
were blown to pieces and Mrs. Simon
Young, who was 200 yards from the mill
was seriously injured The cause OF th'
| EXPLOSION is unknown, as every one a
| the mill was killed.
The ore laden schooner Havana found
cred seven miles north of Benton Harbor
Michigan. Four men were saved by
tug, but the captain, steward, and on
| other are missing.
Western cyclone., 1887-10-14
GRIMES AND CRIMINALS

Sam Branch, negro, was convicted OF
stealing watch in Chattanooga Tenn
Wednesday, and senten ced to five years
in the penitentiary. He Immediately cut
his throat with a pOcket-knife, and died
in half an hour.
John Jones of Fort Wayne, Ind, en-
ploved on the Grand Rapids and Indiana
Railroad as a freight brakeman, attempt
ed TO shoot his wife Wednesday afternoon,
firing at her twice. He then ran out of
the house on TO Wallace street, and when
in front of the Seventh Ward engine
house placed his revolver to his head and
shot himself, death resulting instantly.
He had been on a drunken debauch for
two weeks.
An attempt was made TO shoot Gov.
Martin, of Kansas, at Atkinson, Sunday.
The governor was walking home with
Western cyclone., 1887-10-14
CONDENSED NEWS.
Latest Intelligence From all Parts OF
the World
FIRE RECORD.

A block of wooden buildings in East
Sycamore street. Kokomo, Ind, burned.
The losses are as follows: ]. Mas, saloon
and building, $4,000; John 1hrey, baker,
$500, insured; ]. Kinsley, butcher, $500,
insured; E Shock, gunsmith, $1,000, no
insurance.
The Commercial Bulletins fire record
or Septem Der shows an aggregate loss of
1887 800, against Sc, 100000 in Septem-
Der, 1886 The total for the first nine
months of the current year is $93 $4,000.
against $50, 100000 for the corresponding
period of 1886.
The distillery of Ephraim Howe, on
Elm street, New York, was burned Thurs
day, with a stock of spirits valued at
$4,000. The loss on the building was
$4,000.
Advices from LOnoke, Ark, say the gin
house belonging to NJ. +. Holloway, near
that place, was destroyed by fire Thurs
day night together with about thirty
bales of cotton. The loss Is estimated at
$4,000; no ms urance. The fire Is sup
posed to be the work OF an incendiary.
The fine residence of Capt. c. +. Call
and the store-hOuse of A. W. Brown, at
Ullin, Pulaski county, ILL.,, were entirely
destroyed by fire Thursday. Calls loss
is $4,000, but partly covered by insurance
Browns loss is $4,000, with no insurance.
The oatmeal mill of Douglas Stuart,
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, was burned Wednes-
day, causing a loss of $l25Ou).
destructive contiagration visited Pa
toka Ind, Wednesday night, destroying
the extensive lumber yards AMI planning
mills of S. n. Parrett. The flames spread
RAPIDLY, and within two hours the whole
lumber and mills were III ashes. The
origin is unknown. The losses on build
ing and lumber will reach $4,000; lnsur-
ance $1,000.
The Lunar oil works in Brooklyn were
damaged 100000 by fire. The Excelsior
stores, adjoining, were damaged $1,000
The homes of John Keik, George Flels-
cher, Mrs. Anna Smith, and Mr.. Barnett
in the village of Hegewisch, ILL.,, were
burned late on Sunday night
Western cyclone., 1887-10-14

friend and was accosted by John NJ.
Reynolds, an editor, who made use of
vile language. Martin remons trated,
when the fellow drew large pistol, but
he was seized by policeman before he
could use it and locked up.
Loven Cheney, a Wisconsin pioneer,
cut his throat with a razor and then
drowned himself in a pond, at Emerald
Grove, near GAINESVILLE, Wednesday.
{ At Brennan, Texas, on Sunday night,
three negroes shot policeman named J.
NJ. Lockett, and then cut his throat with
a razor. He was not killed, however, and
identified his assailants. At last accoun IS,
the people were preparing to exterminate
the negroes as soon as notice of the pO-
liceman's death reached them.
Z. T. W. Milburn, member of the
Tennessee legislature, shot dead a young
man named William Ward at Greenville,
Tenn, Saturday afternoon. The murder
grew out of a quarrel about the late pro-
hibition election.
w. R. Cushman, a travelling agent for q
tobacco house, was found in a dazed con
dition in the PlankintOn House. Milwau-
kee. He claims to have been drugged
and robbed of a diamond pin, gold
watch, and 500 in money.
Western cyclone., 1887-10-14

seems to rest upon very poor foun-
dation, and the land Office is OF the
opinion that settlers had better be
thoroughly informed before flocking
into that region. A thorough exami-
nation of the plans, maps, and lists OF
selections in the land Office fail to
show any land that will be thrown
open to settlement by the Secretary's
recent order. The truth is that the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Rail-
road has no grant. 1t WAS given 3
grant and subscribed to the condition
of transporting free the ammunition.
troops, and supplies of the United
States. When it 'sized up" its grant,
however, and found that it would get
but about $4,000 acres of land. IL
begged off from its bargain, and Con-
gress, at the eompany's request, re-
voked its grant by an act passed
March 3. 1877. A few hundred acres
which the road had already sold were
paid for by it, and its land business
with the government closed forever.
The grant to the NJ, X. and L. Com.
pany was So restricted by coming
hardly in contact with the old grant of
the X. c., F. :. and G. that 1t got no
lands in Cherokee County, in which
Baxter Springs is located. 1t did Sc
cure, however, few indemnity tracts
in what is known as the "Quapaw
strip" south of Cherokee County, in
township So, east, range % and -, but
as all its selections have been classified
and patented to it. the officials don't
believe that the NJ, X. and L. order,
while promulgated the same as that
relating TO other land grant settle
ment. 1t is barely possible that there
may be few isolated tracts in the
indemnity limit through the "Quapaw
strip" that there may be released from
withdrawal, but they are too few to
warrant any excitement.